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iPhone App Downloads Are Up. What About Their Usage?
iPhone App Downloads Are Up. What About Their Usage?
The iPhone App Store is red hot: In its first month, more than 60 million software programs were downloaded, and it generated about $1 million a day in sales. That information comes from Steve Jobs in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. In his interview, Jobs says the developers took home $21 million in [...]
A Guided Tour of the $1,000 'I Am Rich' iPhone App [IPhone Apps]
A Guided Tour of the $1,000 'I Am Rich' iPhone App [IPhone Apps]
gizmodo.com — Are you curious as to what, exactly, you got if you purchased the infamous "I Am Rich"... iPhone application for $999.99? Well, here's a video guided tour of it. As I suspected, it's not worth the money. But hey, judge for yourself. Want a copy for your ... (more) A Guided Tour of the $1,000 'I Am Rich' iPhone App ...
Apple iPhone 3G - 1 month, 3 million units sold
Apple iPhone 3G - 1 month, 3 million units sold
intomobile.com — Forget 1 million iPhone 3G units sold in the first weekend of sales, a new report indicates... that Apple has moved 3 million of the iconic iPhone 3G handset since its launch exactly a month ago. According the report, from Fortune and Michael Cote, of ... (more) Apple iPhone 3G - 1 month, 3 million units sold
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Apple Sells 60 Million IPhone Apps, Jobs Confirms Kill Switch
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... Whichever way you cut it, that's a big number, even if, as Gigaom's Om Malik suggests, people aren't actually using most of those applications. Even more interesting for us, though, is the strangely open and forthcoming answer Jobs gave when asked about the ...

Jobs Sets Record Straight On iPhone Rumors
Today @ PC World — ... malicious software. "Hopefully we never have to pull that lever," Jobs said, "but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull." Besides all this, the App Store is doing great said Jobs. Users downloaded 60 million programs in one month, raking in a total of $30 million, Jobs reports. If numbers persist, Apple stands to make $1 million per day on the App Store. These are remarkable numbers given the ratio of free downloads to paid downloads is at least ten-to-one, according to iPhone app developer analyst Pinch Media . CREDIT: PC World contributor Brennon ...

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